Meh, if Priebus had his way the RNC would have run GOTV and he would have used the Wisconsin recall method rather than that ORCA garbage. Pribus isn’t the guy who needs to answer for this. It’s Dan Centinello or whoever ran ORCA.

]]>By: farawayhttp://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/15/how-to-prevent-another-orca-flop/comment-page-1/#comment-2190923
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:43:19 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=228835#comment-2190923Priebus must answer for this.
]]>By: dczombiehttp://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/15/how-to-prevent-another-orca-flop/comment-page-1/#comment-2190916
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:30:14 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=228835#comment-2190916If we had dropped $100 Million on getting people out walking neighborhoods, making phone calls, pushing early and absentee voting, and doing traditional election day strike lists we would have won. Screw Orca, that fat whale let us down.
]]>By: crosspatchhttp://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/15/how-to-prevent-another-orca-flop/comment-page-1/#comment-2190866
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:22:56 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=228835#comment-2190866In 2008 the Democrats fielded two systems in parallel: an electronic system like Orca and a manual system. The electronic system failed so they fell back to the manual system. The GOP had no such manual system.
]]>By: crosspatchhttp://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/15/how-to-prevent-another-orca-flop/comment-page-1/#comment-2190865
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:21:32 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=228835#comment-2190865The RNC should take over Orca and continue working the bugs out of it. Same thing happened to the Democrats in 2008 but they had a manual backup plan ready in case that very thing happened. Elections are very local. The precincts and counties COULD have had contingency backup plans but they didn’t.
]]>By: sharrukinhttp://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/15/how-to-prevent-another-orca-flop/comment-page-1/#comment-2190855
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:06:52 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=228835#comment-2190855So what happened to Mr Managerial Genius?
]]>By: Zaggshttp://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/15/how-to-prevent-another-orca-flop/comment-page-1/#comment-2190848
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:59:51 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=228835#comment-2190848

I doubt any candidate has time to be directly involved in that kind of thing — but it sure sounds like the person he trusted with it really dropped the ball.

Count to 10

Exactly. He hired some technical person, and they fudged up the whole thing. But take orca, make it an actual app (not a web page), have the app give the info to the state GOP except what needs to go to the national RNC/Campaign.
But if the Romney GOTV was so bad, why did early voting go so well?

Test it during the debates, encouraging volunteers to feed information on how they think Romney is doing, and how Obama was doing.

Test it during the convention speech.

Run a stress test sending enormous amounts of data to it.

Decentralize it.

Build it to last, let the RNC have it for the next campaign (if it works). This kind of tech is better built on and passed down, not rebuilt every 4 years. It could give a great midterm edge, if only it was tested and good.